Isabel Wilkerson, CASTE

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Zibby Owens

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4.4 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Isabel Wilkerson - already a Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling author - has captured attention with her stunning new book Caste, which has been lauded as "an instant American classic" by The New York Times. Zibby was thrilled to learn more about Isabel's extensive research process, how the people she writes about become a part of her, and her masterful ability to excavate truths and explain phenomena in such an enthralling format.

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2:01.4	Isabelle Wilkerson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, is the best-selling author of the critically acclaimed book, The Warmth of Other Suns, which won the National Book Critic Circle Award and was named one of Times 10
2:06.5	best nonfiction books of the decade. Her latest book, Cast, became a number one New York Times
2:12.5	bestseller and was hailed as an instant American classic and almost certainly the keynote nonfiction book of the American century thus far.
2:20.8	Wilkerson won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1994 as Chicago Bureau Chief of the New York Times,
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